Christopher Nolan, who last won Oscars with the biographical drama Oppenheimer, based his latest film on Homer’s Odyssey. Photo: Universal
What does the film summer of 2026 bring?
Among others, we will watch the new film of star directors Christopher Nolan and Ridley Scott.
After we last week we covered the movie June, which we wrote is a good warm-up for the upcoming cinema monthsbelow we list the titles of the rest of the film summer. The biggest title of the year is certainly the film adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey directed by Briton Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk, Memento). The new film will also be shown by the legendary Ridley Scott (The Eighth Passenger, Gladiator), and at the beginning of the school year, the premiere of the third part of the youth hit Gaja’s World will follow.
Invitation (July 2)
Summer also calls for romantic dramas, of which there are plenty on Netflix, but every now and then it’s worth watching one on the big screen. The third feature film of the American actress Olivia Wilde, who, after the films Smart Girls and Don’t Worry, Darling, also made The Invitation, seems to be commissioned for this, a film that is said to have something to say about modern partnerships, loyalty and unspoken desires. About two couples and one dinner. A classic genre synopsis, in short, with a star-studded cast: in addition to Wilde, who directs and stars, the film also features Seth Rogen (Pumped Up), Penélope Cruz (Vanilla Sky) and Edward Norton (The Bare Fist Club).
The Odyssey (July 16)
A quarter of a billion dollars reportedly weighs the budget of Odyssey by Christopher Nolan, who last won Oscars with the biographical drama Oppenheimer. It will be interesting to see how the story of Odysseus, who wanders the seas for a decade with his companions after the fall of Troy, searching in vain for his native Ithaca, will be interpreted by a filmmaker known for his intertwined narrative structure. According to Oppenheimer, Nolan will at the same time deal with extensive, complex material again, this time from ancient Greece, full of fantasy creatures and existential questions, in which the main character on his way home to his wife Penelope and son Telemachus sails through the world of Circe, Scylla and Charybdis, Lestrigons and Cyclops, Sirens and Lotophagi and the nymph Calypso. The film is clearly full of star names: Matt Damon, Charlize Theron, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o and Robert Pattinson.
Spider-Man: A New Day (July 30)
English actor Tom Holland has donned Spider-Man’s red-and-blue leggings for the film seven times so far; three times in independent feature films directed by Jon Watts, which ran for two years from 2017 to 2021. After a five-year hiatus, the fourth film of the Holland era is coming, this time directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, known for the films Just Mercy and Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. The fourth part picks up where the third movie left off – thanks to magic, everyone in New York forgot that Peter Parker was Spider-Man. Although Peter has made the decision to remain forgotten for the safety of others, the loneliness and the constant battle against the bastards are getting to him more and more. So we can expect a new chapter, in which the action roller coaster of the most famous teenage superhero intersects with a youth drama, imbued with mandatory warnings about the pitfalls of the adult world.
The end of Hrastova Street (August 13)
The sci-fi thriller The End of Hrastova Street has a typical spectacular premise – a cosmic event rocks the peace of an American family, which uproots them and their terraced house from their home neighborhood and places them in a prehistoric landscape where dinosaurs roam. In short, it is one of those classic action thrillers with an exciting ZF-plot, a stellar cast and a bad audiovisual image, the kind that Hollywood makes best. Starring Anne Hathaway (Interstellar, The Devil in Prada) and Ewan McGregor (Moulin Rouge, Trainspotting). The director was the American David Robert Mitchell, known for the extraordinary horror It Follows (2014).
Stars above the silence (August 27)
In the near future, where a mysterious virus has almost wiped out human civilization, and the remaining survivors live in isolated communities and face the dangers of the new world on a daily basis, we follow a former civilian pilot who lost his wife during the pandemic, played by Jacob Elordi (Stormy Peak, Saltburn). He lives in a hangar with his dog Jasper, but after picking up a mysterious signal on the radio, he decides to take a risk and fly his old plane towards the source of the message. Of course, we can expect many tense moments scattered across the landscape in which the shackles of civilization have loosened. In addition to Elordi, Josh Brolin (No Room for Old Men) and Margaret Qualley (The Substance) also star.
Gaia’s World 3 (September 3)
As mentioned in the introduction, together with the start of school comes the premiere of the Slovenian youth film Gaja’s World 3. In the third part, Gaja starts attending high school, meets new friends, experiences her first love, and to top it all off, her mother, who leads Doctors Without Borders on a special mission in a war zone, is kidnapped. This is how the official synopsis of the continuation of the Slovenian youth hit reads, and Gaja’s World became the first Slovenian film after several decades to get a third part, which Kekc has managed to do so far. The first two parts of the trilogy from 2018 and 2022 were among the ten most watched Slovenian films after 1991. x
